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Cycling for awareness

Questions
on logo
contract
continue
Partnership for Alcohol
Safety committee
members disagree with
the effects of the UI’s
Anheuser-Busch
contract.
By AMY SKARNULIS
amy-skarnulis@uiowa.edu

UI senior Billy Baker receives help putting on his helmet outside the Old Capitol on Wednesday. For the Pi Kappa Phi brother, the biggest reason for participating in Journey of Hope is “to help people who are normally put to the side.” (The Daily Iowan/Rachel Jessen)

Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers are cycling from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
to raise money for people with disabilities.
By ALY BROWN
alyson-brown@uiowa.edu

Journey of Hope, an annual cycling trek
across America, has raised more than
$650,000 this year for people with disabilities. The team stopped at the University of
Iowa — the school of one team member —
Wednesday to raise awareness and meet
the community.

Billy Baker, a UI senior majoring in business management and finance, said he is
cycling for Journey of Hope because people
with mental and physical disabilities are
often ignored in society.
“The biggest reason why I do this is to
help people who are normally put to the
side,” he said. “Not many people choose to
work with people with disabilities.”
Baker said the individuals with disabili-

ties the team has met were all excited to
spend time with the squad.
“Sometimes, just spending five minutes
with them, getting to know them makes
their day,” he said.
The team started in San Francisco on
June 3, and the members plan to finish in
SEE BAKER, 3A
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Alcohol-safety advocates discussed
the University of Iowa’s renewed contract with Anheuser-Busch for the first
time as a group Wednesday, and many
voiced concerns about how the Hawkeye community will interpret the message. The contract allows the Tigerhawk logo to share space on products
with Anheuser-Busch logos along with
the phrase “Responsibility Matters.”
Johnson County prosecutor Janet
Lyness said she thinks having a UI
symbol placed next to an alcoholic-beverage symbol will send the wrong message.
“I think it’s a really bad idea,” she
said. “It looks like the University of
Iowa is promoting it.”
Lyness, who has a 14-year-old
daughter, said she had concerns about
high-school kids seeing a banner while
shopping at local stores.
The UI renewed its contract with
the company in June. Since the renewal, there have been questions about
whether the partnership contradicts
the university’s “Responsibility Matters” campaign.
SEE CONTRACT, 3A

Officials Group backs alcohol training
laud
The program was launched
by the state Alcoholic
Division on
admission Beverages
March 1.
changes
By AMY SKARNULIS
amy-skarnulis@uiowa.edu

The UI receives more
than 20,000 freshmen
applications and more
than 42,000 total
applications each year.
By KRISTEN EAST
kristen-east@uiowa.edu

High-school seniors applying to the
University of Iowa will now know within 48 hours if they’ve been selected to
join the Hawkeye community.
Officials in the UI Admissions Office
announced Tuesday their plans to
streamline the admissions process by
having first-year/freshman applicants
self-report their high-school course
work, test scores, grade-point averages,
and class ranks when they apply for
admission. Students will receive an
SEE ADMISSIONS, 3A

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Mostly sunny, light breezes turning
calm.

Bar owners say the implementation of
the Iowa Program for Alcohol Compliance
Training earlier this year helps servers
understand when patrons shouldn’t be sold
another alcoholic drink because they are
intoxicated.
The University of Iowa and Iowa City’s
joint Partnership for Alcohol Safety discussed a law regarding selling alcohol to
intoxicated persons on Wednesday. Many
local bar owners say there’s no real way to
completely prevent selling to intoxicated
patrons.
It is against state law for someone to continue to serve an intoxicated person or one
who simulates intoxication. Members of
the coalition agreed the law has many gray
areas because of the drinking culture in
Iowa City.
George Etre, the owner of Takanami and
Formosa, said there are establishments
downtown with numerous bars and numerous bartenders working as well as numerous wait staff serving drinks.
“They have [roughly] 35 different people
you can get alcohol from,” he said. “It’s

Saloon bartenders Jenny LeBeau (left) and Emily Lemke (middle) prepare drinks for patrons in this 2007
file photo. The Iowa Program for Alcohol Compliance Training was launced in March; it is designed to help
prevent bars from serving alcohol to intoxicated customers. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)
tough to remember who is coming up and
what they look like.”
He said it’s also often difficult for servers
to tell if someone has had too much to drink
if the patron is seated and does not seem
intoxicated.
Iowa City Police Chief Sam Hargadine
agreed.
“There are some people that may be at a
0.02 [blood-alcohol content], and they can’t

talk, and they’re stumbling,” Hargadine
said. “And people are at a 0.2 or 0.3 and go
through their day fine [because they are
functional alcoholics].”
Committee members agreed that the
training of the bar owners and servers is
important when trying to uphold the law.
The state Alcoholic Beverages Division
launched the new alcohol program March
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Ann Franzenburg of Pheasant Run Farms wraps up a customer’s purchase at the Iowa City Farmers’ Market on Wednesday. The Farmers’ Market
runs every Wednesday from 5-7 p.m. and Saturday from 7:30 a.m.-noon in the Chauncey Swan parking ramp. (The Daily Iowan/Michael Fanelli)

From social work to fiction
Novelist uses
experiences as a
social worker to
compose four
novels.
By ELLE WIGNALL
elle-wignall@uiowa.edu

Novelist Laura Moriarty
planned to use her degree
in social work from the University of Kansas to go to
medical school.
“I had really liked to do
something useful and pragmatic,” she said.
When she actually
entered the profession,
however, she found herself
writing.
“I started writing at
night really as a way to sort
of process everything that
was happening during the
day,” she said. “Much of my
first novel comes from the
social-work experience.”
Moriarty is one of around

75 visiting authors in this
weekend’s fourth-annual
Iowa City Book Festival,
presented by the University of Iowa Libraries and
community partners.
Festival Director Kristi
Bontrager said that this
year’s event brings in writers of all genres for everyone to enjoy.
“Since the Book Festival
comes out of the library,
part of our mission as
librarians is to provide
access to books and reading
and writing to everyone,”
she said. “That’s the guiding principle that we had.
We want to provide access
to authors and all this great
literature to appeal to a lot
of different people.”
This is Moriarty’s first
year at the festival, and she
comes having just recently
published her fourth novel
in June, The Chaperone.
The work is a historical
novel about a woman who
chaperoned silent film star
Louise Brooks to New York
City in 1922.

Moriarty said writing a
historical novel required
a lot of research to build a
believable story.
“[Louise Brooks] is a real
person with biographies
and autobiographies,” she
said. “I read all of that; I
read about her life, I
watched her movie.”
While the well-known
Brooks is a major character
in The Chaperone, the main
character is a work of fiction.
“The main character
[Cora] is completely invented,” Moriarty said. “I
wrapped the imaginary
story around Louise
Brooks’ life. Even for the
imagined character I had to
do a lot of research.”
Her research helped her
build a believable image of
the ’20s women and society.
“It’s gotten really, really
wonderful reviews,” Iowa
Book employee Matt Lage
said. “Her first three novels
did rather well, but this is
being positioned as her
breakthrough novel.”
None of Moriarty’s first

small plastic baggy with a green,
leafy substance believed to be
marijuana in his wallet, the complaint said.
According to the police complaint, Hathaway is a convicted
felon.
Eluding, trafficking in stolen
weapons, and possession of a
firearm are Class-D felonies. OWI
and driving while barred are both
aggravated
misdemeanors.
Possession of a controlled substance and reckless use of a
firearm are serious misdemeanors.
— by Amy Skarnulis

witness approached him again,
Duffel punched him in the head,
which caused bleeding from his
scalp area, the complaint said.
The complaint said Duffel
admitted to drinking; he has been
arrested for public intoxication
June 13, 2011, March 31, 2010, and
March 13, 2010.
Public intoxication is an aggravated misdemeanor and seconddegree robbery is a Class-C
felony.
— by Amy Skarnulis

Laura Moriarty
Reading
When: 11 a.m. July 15
Where: Wild Bill’s Coffee
Shop, North Hall
Admission: Free
three novels are quite the
same.
“I really like to write
about people who aren’t me
and aren’t like me, because
it’s sort of the same pleasure as reading,” she said. “I
can really kind of experience a different world.”
In addition to writing,
she is also a creative-writing professor at the University of Kansas. She is looking forward to the opportunity to spend the weekend
in Iowa City.
Moriarty will speak at
Wild Bill’s Coffee Shop at
11 a.m. July 15.
“I think that’s really nice
to meet readers face to
face,” she said. “It’s really
fun when they’ve read your
novels.”

METRO
CR man faces
boatload of charges
A Cedar Rapids man was
accused of not stopping when
law-enforcement officials tried to
pull him over.
Tyson Hathaway, 28, was
charged Tuesday with eluding,
possession of a firearm, reckless
use of a firearm, trafficking in
stolen weapons, possession of
marijuana, OWI, and driving while
barred.
According to a Johnson County
Sheriff’s Office complaint, lawenforcement officials were called
to a location because a witness
stated several subjects fired
numerous shots. The witness
gave a description of the car that
Hathaway was driving.
Officials chased Hathaway’s
vehicle with their emergency
lights and sirens activated.
Hathaway allegedly threw a
loaded hand gun from the vehicle
that was later recovered, the
complaint said.
Hathaway was caught, and
officers reportedly discovered he
was barred from driving from
Sept. 12, 2010 to Sept. 11, 2013.
Officials reportedly noticed he
smelled of ingested alcohol, and
Hathaway provided a breath test
of 0.134 blood-alcohol level.
Officers also allegedly found a

A man has been accused of
attempting to steal a keg of beer
from a truck.
Gary Duffel, 44, address
unknown, was charged Tuesday
with second-degree robbery and
public intoxication.
According to an Iowa City
police complaint, a delivery driver confronted Duffel when he was
taking a keg of beer from a beer
truck. Duffel reportedly smelled
strongly of alcohol and spoke
with slurred speech.
Duffel showed a knife to scare
the witness away and then threw
the knife into a creek. When the

State officials met with
Federal Emergency Management
Agency Administrator Craig
Fugate Wednesday and discussed
the Department of Homeland
Security Office of the Inspector
General recommendations to
reverse replacement funding for
three University of Iowa buildings.
“We had an encouraging meeting with the administrator, and
our messages were wellreceived,” said Rep. Dave
Loebsack, D-Iowa. “It is unfathomable that almost two years
after this project was approved,
recovery funds could be taken
back.”

If the recommendations were
accepted, FEMA would take back
funds and delay the timeline for
full flood recovery.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,
said he was pleased with Fugate’s
response to the recommendations.
“It’s good that Administrator
Fugate is holding firm on the
commitments that FEMA made to
the University of Iowa,” the senator said. “It’s unfortunate that
the University of Iowa is getting
caught in an internal dispute at
the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.”
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said
he will continue to work with colleagues in the Iowa delegation to
support FEMA’s current position.
“I am very pleased with what I
heard from Administrator Fugate
today,” he said. “FEMA has taken
the correct position. Spending
tens of millions of dollars to
repair damaged buildings that
may well flood again is neither in
the interests of the university
nor those of taxpayers. In addition, the inspector general’s
assumptions on initial savings
are likely overstated because
repair costs will be higher given
that these buildings have been
vacant for a long time.”
— by Jordyn Reiland

Road, Apt. 3, was charged July 5
with public intoxication.
Marzell Hicks, 35, 91 Anderson
St., was charged Tuesday with
possession of an open container
of alcohol in public.
David Lake, 19, 3022 Cornell Ave.,
was charged Wednesday with
presence in bar after hours.
Megan Lumsden, 22, Coralville,
was charged Tuesday with public
intoxication.
Colin Marshall, 20, 713 Ronalds
St., was charged Wednesday with
presence in bar after hours.
Campbell Murdock, 20, 108 S.

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BAKER
CONTINUED FROM 1A
Washington, D.C. Aug. 5.
The journey is part of Pi
Kappa Phi’s philanthropy
project Push America,
bringing fraternity brothers and individuals with
disabilities together.
Baker is the fifth person
from the UI chapter to participate in Journey of Hope.
According to Baker’s Push

CONTRACT
CONTINUED FROM 1A
The contract is between
Anehuser-Busch
and
Learfield Communications
Inc., the sports-marketing
company hired to represent
the Hawkeye Athletics
Department.
Learfield will pay the
Athletics Department $114
million through 2026.
Anheuser-Busch officials
will provide $43,000 for the

ADMISSIONS
CONTINUED FROM 1A
admissions decision within
two business days of applying.
“We’re really excited
about it,” said Michael Barron, the assistant provost
for UI Admissions. “What
happens after admissions,
the more information students have about the real
opportunities that exist,
the better their decision

TRAINING
CONTINUED FROM 1A
1. It is the first free, online
alcohol-training program
in Iowa to be implemented
statewide.
“When I employ people,
their first four hours are
alcohol training,” Etre said.
“We try our hardest to
cover the liability.”

News

The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 3A

America page, he has
raised $6,900 of his $7,000
goal.
The team visited the Arc
of Southeast Iowa during
the stay in Iowa City for
pizza, games, and connecting with the community at
a Friendship Visit.
Angelo Jackson, 14, said
between bites of pepperoni
pizza that he thinks the
organization is good and
the team is cool.
“I think they are fun and
nice,” he said.
Jackson said he recently

competed in cycling at the
State Special Olympics in
Ames and enjoys riding his
bike.
Bill Reagan, the president and chief executive
officer of the Arc of Southeast Iowa, said he is grateful for the team’s advocacy
and dedication to disability
awareness.
“Every year, it’s a different group of guys, but they
are always so friendly,” he
said. “They are doing something physical on behalf of
people who often can’t.”

Reagan said it is the
fourth-consecutive year the
Journey of Hope team has
visited the Arc, and each
year, the Arc community
lines up at the Old Capitol
to greet the cyclists.
“We are so grateful for
groups like this,” he said.
“Groups that advocate for
disabilities face pressure of
dwindling funding sources
and disappearing grants.”
Jimmy Fliss, a junior at
the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, said he
has participated with Jour-

ney of Hope since his freshman year, and the opportunity to meet those who
enjoy helping others keeps
him coming back.
“It’s too good of an opportunity pass up to cycle with
around 30 other guys who
want to help people as
much as you do,” he said. “I
love meeting people at
places I have never been to
before, and the volunteers
always hug us like we’re
their best friends.”
Fliss said he wants to

advocate for the disabled
community to combat the
social stigma against those
with disabilities — including his former misconceptions.
“I had no idea what to
expect,” he said. “I didn’t
really talk to people with
disabilities before, but I
was foolish, and I felt like I
was missing something. I
have met the nicest people
on this trip.”

UI’s alcohol-harm-reduction plan n its first year.
Leah Cohen, the owner
of Bo-James, 118 E. Washington St., said she has not
talked to one person who is
favor of this contract, and
she is concerned where the
banners
with
the
Anheuser-Busch logo and
the Tigerhawk logo are
together.
“I’m fine with it at my
bar,” she said, referring to
her 21-only establishment.
“But I know a lot of bars

have [under-age people] in
them.”
UI Vice President for
Student Life Tom Rocklin
said the university has
been clear with its message
regarding alcohol consumption, and officials
want students in particular
to drink safely.
“I believe we have been
clear enough with the community that we don’t condemn alcohol,” he said.
“When it is used safely and
legally, I don’t think we’re
taking a significant risk by

associating the Tigerhawk
with [the Anheuser-Busch
logo].”
Rick Klatt, the Hawkeye
associate athletics director
for external relations, said
the university has partnered with AnheuserBusch for more than 20
years and noted he’s had
some questions since the
contract was signed.
The contract provides
Anheuser-Busch access to
the Tigerhawk trademark
every time it is used in
print fashion, and Klatt

said the size of the Tigerhawk and the “Responsibility Matters” will be roughly
the same size. He also said
that every time it is used, it
needs to be reviewed and
approved by the university
before it can be used in
print.
“The approval process is
very important, and it will
be seen by many eyes,” he
said.
He said the Tigerhawk
would accompany the
Anheuser-Busch logo on
places such as banners in

bars, restaurants, or grocery stores and not on beer
cans or apparel.
Shelly Campo, a UI associate professor of community and behavioral health,
said the phrase “Responsibility Matters” is open for
interpretation and does not
necessarily mean people
should drink responsibly.
“The data say that message is strategically
ambiguous,” she said. “And
people can interpret it the
way they want.”

will be for where to go, and
we certainly think that will
be helpful to us.”
The new application can
be found online in midAugust.
Barron said UI officials
aren’t concerned about
applicants being dishonest
with self-reporting their
academic information.
“We certainly considered
that factor,” he said. “What
we’ve learned is two things:
Students are fundamentally honest, and especially so
if you let them know that
there are quick and swift

consequences if it turns out
their answers weren’t
[accurate].”
Though students will no
longer need to send an official high-school transcript
and test scores to receive
an admission decision, Barron said these documents
will be required by July 1 to
complete enrollment.
The change will also
allow UI Admissions personnel to spend more time
helping transfer and international students with
their applications.
“Transfer students have

a different type set of questions, so there’s more time
spent with an individual
transfer student,” Barron
said. “Increasing students
who transfer to Iowa is also
a goal and has been for
some time. This sort of shift
in personnel in the transfer
arena is going to help us
with that decision as well.”
Transfer and international applicants will still
be required to send official
high-school transcripts and
test scores.
While UI officials do
expect an increase in the

number of applicants, Barron said, the university
won’t have to turn away
more students as a result of
the change.
“I don’t see this as putting us in a position to
where we would have to
turn away more students,”
he said. “Just because you
offer admission to students
doesn’t mean they’re going
to accept the offer.”
The UI receives more
than 20,000 freshman
applications and more than
42,000 total applications
each year.

A similar admissions
process was implemented
at Iowa State University
for the 2011-12 school year.
Applicants also receive an
admissions decision within
48 hours.
“It’s been very successful,” said Maura Flaschner,
the associate director of
admissions at Iowa State.
“It has just cut down on the
amount of time to review
students’ material. It has
also created an awareness
among students of their
academic record.”

Leah Cohen, the owner
of Bo-James, said she takes
the training one step further by telling new employees they need to bring in
their program certification
before their first shift.
Patrick Grim, assistant
undergraduate director at
the UI Student Legal Services, said he has worked
as an assistant manager at
a bar, and incentive programs have worked the

best to make sure employees have completed the certification.
“We would have food
incentives,” he said. “And it
takes less than an hour. If
it’s slow and we had two
waitresses working, we had
a laptop behind the bar and
one of them would do their
I-PACT.”
Shelly Campo, a UI asso-

ciate professor of community and behavioral health,
suggested that bar owners
and bartenders could look
at a sales receipt for one
person and see if there

were enough drinks purchased that could make
someone intoxicated.
Yet Cohen said it
depends on the type of alcohol the patrons purchase.

“You can’t tell by tabs
because people buy their
group shots,” she said. “You
can get a $7 Patrón or
something that’s $2 [for the
deal of the night].”

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Editorial

AgriSol’s business
practices are defensible
There has been an ongoing theme lately that the
rich man is the bad guy. The profits are at the
expense of the weak, and there is no such thing as
ethical business.
However, not all businesses are cruel, and not all
profits mean greed. When companies come in,
some people really do get hired, and if that business is profitable, more people can get hired.
One business in particular under fire for claims
of profiteering and corruption is Iowa’s own
AgriSol Energy LLC.
In Tanzania, AgriSol Energy LLC landed a deal
in which the inputs are cheap, and the product,
food, will be sold at an international market price
that will yield immense profits.
Given that information, many have raised their
red flags, and have begun a deeper investigation.
However, the information revealed in the Oakland
Institute investigation, as well as the public documents provided by AgriSol Energy, our conclusion
is that AgriSol is not a corrupt company victimizing the people of Tanzania; rather, it is a company
with valuable goals that will help not only the
nation of Tanzania but neighboring nations as
well.
Unfortunately, the farmland offered to AgriSol
also had many refugees living on it who had lived
there for many years and didn’t want to move. So
their government forced them to using scare tactics and allegedly violating their human rights.
AgriSol Energy is involved in the fray because it
was interested in using the land, but only to make
inexpensive products that will both feed the
Tanzanian people and be exported to increase profits.
Henry Akona, the director of communications for
AgriSol Tanzania, said that through the new technology and farming methods, the company will
introduce, the people of Tanzania will have more
food than ever before and will be able to sell it on
an international scale. That would ultimately produce economic growth and stability for the people.
Although AgriSol Energy certainly aims to make
a profit, that’s not indicative of corruption.
AgriSol’s profits will allow Tanzania to produce
chicken feed more quickly and provide refrigeration so that eggs are affordable and no longer a
luxury.

According to the U.N. Development Programme
report in Tanzania, the Tanzanian people are suffering an epidemic caused by malnutrition because
of their poverty, lack of refrigeration, cooking oil,
and inability to feed their children enough protein.
Children under the age of 5 are most susceptible
to protein deficiencies, which can cause muscle
stuntedness and mental retardation — two health
problems that are permanent and incurable.
“When a dozen eggs is viewed as a luxury item,
it comes as no surprise that children have protein
deficiencies,” Akona said. He noted that this something this company can change.
The profits the company will see provides Regent
Bruce Rastetter, managing director of AgriSol,
with the incentive to improve lives on an international scale, and it allows for this kind of work to
be sustainable.
Developing nations suffer in the reliability of foreign aid, because donors are not always able to
donate. Just think of the last time you made a
donation to feed the African children, and maybe
you’ll start to realize that “profitable” doesn’t mean
“evil” — rather, it means sustainable and reliable.
It’s important that we always look for ways to
make life better and always investigate corruption
and ensure the sanctity of life.
Human beings are human beings regardless of
skin color, language, or country of origin, and so
they must be treated with dignity and respect. The
crimes committed against refugees in Tanzania
should not be ignored and warrant attention, but
we should not make matters worse by defaming an
institution that would allow Tanzania to be the
breadbasket of the region.
AgriSol Energy hopes that through a profitable
investment strategy, it may be able to make
Tanzanian economy strong enough that people can
afford both to buy and sell their foods, Akona said.
We must encourage legitimate agreements
between employees and employers, but do not forget that America has a market economy, and the
free market is not the enemy.
Your turn. Are AgriSol’s practices ethical?
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Chicken commentary off base
I was really disgusted in reading Opinions Editor Ben Evans
commentary on urban chickens. Evans’s blatant racism and
lazy stabs at humor are unacceptable. What does Mexico City
or cock-fighting have to do with having chickens in our yards?
This was a poorly constructed joke that ended up being a
horribly racist disaster. And calling out local business-owner

Jarrett Mitchell by name was uncalled for. The Black Plague
was caused by fleas on rats, not chickens, pal.
You are more likely to catch a disease from a mosquito, tick,
or squirrel than a chicken. How can people that live in an agriculture state not know anything about agriculture?
The editorial staff at the DI needs to grow up.
Brendan Lee Spengler
Iowa City

DO YOU THINK THE WORKSHOP FORMAT
WORKS FOR TEACHING?

Take a look at today’s column, and email us at:
daily.iowan.letters@gmail.com.

Workshop
worries
IAN FRIEDMAN
Ian-Friedman@uiowa.edu

Being a UNESCO
City of Literature, Iowa
City has a long-standing tradition of reading
and writing. It is hard
to walk around campus
without noticing the
implications of such a
tradition.
Stroll down Iowa
Avenue, and you will
notice the words of
famous authors and
poets etched into the
concrete sidewalk. Stop
in at any coffee shop,
and you will recognize
someone curiously
entranced by their computer screen or writing
pad, laying down words
at a furious pace.
This summer, the
University of Iowa and
Iowa City play host to a
multitude of visitors
hailing from all over
the globe who wish to
experience the rich history Iowa City has to
offer.
Among other festivities, the university is
sponsoring 137 workshops in which these
aspiring wordsmiths
pay a fee of $560 per
week to meet with others and discuss one
another’s work.
Although clarity and
understanding is a
common goal for each
participant, these
workshops imbue the
thoughts and identities
of other members in
the group into an individual’s piece.
These workshops
have become a hallmark of Iowa City’s
and the university’s literary cultures, where
members form groups
and assess the effectiveness of each piece.
The objective is to provide constructive criticism for those that are
otherwise unsure of
how to proceed with a
given aspect of their
own work: whether it is
plot formation, word
choice, or overall style.
As part of the experience, participants are
usually encouraged to
read what they’ve written.
Some of the readings
take place at
Beadology, owned by
Karen Kubby.
“A lot of the writing
that I hear is very intimate, personal stories.
Once in a while, writers are kind of introverted people, and then
they come here and
have to put it out
there,” Kubby said as
reported by the DI.
This is the common
sentiment among the
undergraduate writing

classes that are offered
at the university during the fall and spring
semesters, the main
emphasis being a
respectful and constructive approach
toward everyone’s
work.
Having sat through
three creative writing
classes myself, I’ve
been subjected to the
workshop format as
well. I have read material from people studying writing, English,
philosophy, and areas
that have nothing to do
with creative writing.
I can honestly say
that some of the best
writing I had to read
during those times
came from individuals
with no real training or
significant experience
with writing before. It
seemed that they were
writing well despite the
workshop.
For those trained to
write, their stories or
pieces, while eloquently
written, weren’t necessarily good pieces.
“Writing can’t be
taught. Creative writing can’t be taught,”
bestselling author
Stephen King said in a
2009 BBC interview
with Mark Lawson.
The workshop format
tries to force individuals to take too seriously
the opinions of others.
This is a very slippery
slope. If people were to
take the advice of every
person in their workshop group, then their
piece of writing wouldn’t be a piece all their
own anymore. Instead,
it becomes less an individual’s piece and more
a hodgepodge of others’
ideas.
This isn’t so bad if
your workshop group is
composed of Stephen
King, J.K. Rowling,
Salman Rushdie, Dr.
Suess, and Chuck
Palahniuk. But the
reality is that the people that make up a
workshop are your
peers, ordinary people
who love to write.
Why then should
someone take people’s
advice on how to write
when the chances are
that they probably
know little more than
you do about their own
craft?
You can garner
enough creative and
emotional support to
make you a better
writer, but that doesn’t
mean that your writing
is great or even good. I
understand that writing is a learning
process: The development of each writer is
only comparable to a
former self.
However, when someone begins to rely on
the opinions and tastes
of another, how much of
the thinking behind the
writing is actually
theirs?

Guest column

Breyer’s concurring opinion is cause for concern
Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Breyer’s concurring opinion in the Stolen
Valor Act case raises a freespeech concern.
A defining feature of
modern First Amendment
jurisprudence is the content-discrimination principle. This means that the
government must meet a
much higher standard of
review when it regulates or
targets speech on the basis
of content. In legal parlance, there is a difference
between content-based
laws and content-neutral
laws.
Justice Thurgood Marshall explained this con-

cept well in Chicago Police
Department v. Mosley
(1972): “But above all else,
the First Amendment
means that the government may not restrict
speech because of its message, its ideas, its subject
matter, or its content.” The
thinking behind this is that
society does not want the
government engaging in
thought control, in forcing
people to believe or support
particular types of speech.
We don’t want the government distorting the marketplace of ideas.
Because of this concern
about government manipulation of speech content,

the courts treat contentbased laws differently from
content-neutral laws.
When the government
enacts a law that discriminates on the basis of content — a content-based law
— it must pass the highest
form of judicial review
known as strict scrutiny.
On the other hand, laws
that apply across the board
to all speech without
regard to content — socalled content-neutral laws
— are subject to a lesser
form of judicial review
known as intermediate
scrutiny.
The terms can be confusing and even confounding

to the layperson, but essentially these different standards of review often lead
to different outcomes. Content-based laws generally
are struck down, while
many content-neutral laws
are upheld. This is not
always the case, but there
is a significant difference
between the two standards
of review.
The difference between
content-based and contentneutral laws is one reason
Justice Stephen Breyer’s
concurring opinion in the
Stolen Valor Act decision,
*United States v. Alvarez*,
causes concern.
The Stolen Valor Act

clearly is a content-based
law, as Justice Anthony
Kennedy pointed out several times in his plurality
opinion. Unless speech falls
into an unprotected category — like obscenity or fraud
— such a content-based
law is subject to strict
scrutiny. That is classic
First Amendment analysis.
Breyer, who was joined
by Justice Elena Kagan,
did something much different. He said that the Stolen
Valor Act should be subject
to intermediate scrutiny or
“proportionality” review.
Breyer wrote that “the
court’s term ‘intermediate
scrutiny’ describes what I

think we should do.” Breyer
then used intermediate
scrutiny to try to balance
the First Amendment
harm caused by the law
against the substantial
interests advanced by it.
Ultimately, Breyer’s
application of intermediate
scrutiny led him to the
same result as Kennedy’s
plurality opinion — a ruling striking down the
Stolen Valor Act.
But in the process, Breyer deviated from established First Amendment
law and may have caused
greater harm.
David L. Hudson Jr.
First Amendment scholar

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full strength,” she said.
“It’s pretty severe.”
John so n an d Tayl o r
were able to combat the
pain on Wednesday night.

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what counts.
Vinton stepped up its
game when head coach
Joe Johnston’s Pelling
team finally began scoring in the beginning of
the
second
h a l f.
U n k r i c h ’s t e a m o n l y
held a 4- p o i n t l e ad a t
the 16:50 mark in the
s e c o n d h a l f. A n d t h e n
Logic was able to find
Jen Keitel streaking up
the court a minute later,

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them come back … These
are our fans, the ones coming to all of our games. It’s
really important that we
have a good time with
them and make them
enjoy it.”
The campers pick a
catch phrase and shout it
after every pass, set, or
hit. The youngsters shout
out “Kitty cat” or “Brownies” as they slowly get the
hang of handling the ball.
The
campers
are
instructed to shout “Up”
whenever they pass. If
they’re setting, the girls
have to shout the name of
the person they’re aiming
for.

Sports

The upperclassmen combined for 25 points and
led Cullen Painting over
Coralville Hy-Vee, 83-67,
in North Liberty for their
team’s first victory of the
summer.
Johnson led her team
wi t h 1 3 p o i n t s, 5
rebounds and 1 assist,
and Taylor added 12, 9,

and 4. Taylor was excited
to get on the board in the
standings and said that
the win was truly a team
victory.
“ I j us t want ed t o
rebound out there and
make a team for me or
my teammates,” she said.
“It felt good to get our
fi r s t wi n, and no one

player felt as if she had to
do it all.”
Senior guard Trisha
Nesbitt, an Iowa teammate but an opponent
Wednesday night, said
the injuries were almost
unnoticeable.
“Theairra’s just coming
back from having a ’scope
done,” Nesbitt said. “She

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that’s what got us the
extra possessions and
shots we needed.”
Unkrich’s team benefited from its shooting in
the second half. Mackenz i e We s t c o t t f i n i s h e d
with 19 points while
shooting 50 percent from
the
field.
Amber
Kirschbaum finished
w i t h 1 4 p o i n t s, a n d
Dohnalek hit two crucial
3-pointers to keep the
lead alive.
Even though Unkrich’s
team couldn’t move on
offense, Vinton was able
to rebound the ball.
Kirschbaum and Keitel

each
grabbed
8
r e b o u n d s, a n d L o g i c
snagged
7.
Those
rebounds allowed them
to have more offensive
possessions and took
away chances for Johnston’s team to come back.
Johnston’s team was
short a couple of players
but was still able to compete for most of the
game. Bethany Doolittle
held off Vinton enough to
stop the game from turning into a blowout.
She scored 21 points,
finished 9-of-15 shooting, and pulled down 7
rebounds.

grade volleyball player.
“It’s geared toward the
younger age group; without the big kids there,
they weren’t going to be
intimidated.”
Volleyball is a complex
sport, so for kids as young
as 7, the goal of the Little
Spikers camp is just to
teach the very basics,
assistant coach Jason
Allen said.
The camp staff purposely chooses to focus on
activities the youngsters
enjoy — hitting, diving,
blocking — so that they
fall in love with the sport
at an early age.
Beyond that, the Iowa

volleyball program strives
to build volleyball players
from the ground up, starting with the very basic
skills — communication
included.
“At their age, all they
really have to know how to
do is put their hands
together and get their feet
to the ball,” Johnson said.
“[We teach them] how to
move to a ball and get to it
and how to be good teammates to each other. If
you’re not vocal, then
nobody knows what’s
going on. If are vocal,
you’re working together as
a unit, and you’re a better
team.”

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looking for a 3-pointer
that gave Vinton Merchants a 10-point lead it
didn’t lose.
Logic finished the
g a m e w i t h 2 3 p o i n t s,
going 8-of-16 from the
floor, and she was still
able to create enough
plays for her teammates
to pull out a win.
“We made stops when
we needed to,” she said.
“ We d i d p r e t t y w e l l
rebounding the ball, and

The campers high-five
each other after every
play, and the Iowa volleyball players, staff, and
coaches are right in there
with the high-fives as
well.
“With little kids, it’s
really important to be
very vocal,” Hawkeye
player Grace Burns said.
“Even in our [college]
practices, you have to be
loud. Volleyball can get
boring if no one is talking,
so we like to feed back positive energy.”
The Little Spikers camp
strives to introduce kids to
volleyball. The camp
draws in many participants because it allows
such young kids to attend.
“This was a nice change
for the younger age group,
because it wasn’t too
intense,” said Joni Anderson, a mother of a third-

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looked to be almost at full
strength out there,
though.”
The victory, while nice,
is not the main goal for
both players as the Game
Time League nears its
conclusion. The big picture is focused on coming
back yet again f rom
debilitating
circum-

stances, which can only
be cured by crucial minutes on the hardwood.
“Right now, the injuries
are getting better every
day,” Johnson said.
“Hopefully, by the end of
the summer, I’ll be back
in shape and ready to go
for the season.”

Sharnae Lamar of Pelling/Culver’s drives against Sam Logic of
Vinton/McCurry’s in Game Time action in North Liberty on
Wednesday. Logic contributed 23 points in her team’s 76-61 victory,
shooting 8-of-16 from the floor. (The Daily Iowan/Sumei Chen)
“We have to work on
o u r r e b o u n d i n g,” s h e
said. “We had seven play-

ers tonight, and I think
we did well with what we
had.”

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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2012

GAME TIME LEAGUE

Johnson, Taylor battle back

Logic
leads team
to victory
Stingy defense and
an opportune offense
led Vinton
Merchants to a less
than perfect Game
Time League win on
Wednesday.
By CARLOS SOSA
carlos-sosa@uiowa.edu

Theairra Taylor (left) and Morgan Johnson play for Cullen Painting during a Game Time game against Coralville Hy-Vee on Wednesday in North Liberty. Johnson
and Taylor combined for 25 points in their team’s 85-67 victory. (The Daily Iowan/Sumei Chen)

Iowa senior center Morgan Johnson and redshirt junior guard Theairra
Taylor are fighting through injuries in the Game Time League hoping to be
ready for the Hawkeye’s season this fall.
By TOM CLOS
thomas-clos@uiowa.edu

Coming back from injuries might
just be the toughest things athletes
face in their careers. Most players
encounter this once or twice during
their playing days.
But rehabbing has become a routine for Iowa women’s basketball
senior center Morgan Johnson and
redshirt junior guard Theairra Taylor.
Both players on head coach Randy
Larson’s team are battling through
their various afflictions in the Game
Time League this summer, and the
Hawkeyes are hoping they will be at
full strength when their season
opens in the fall.
“I’m still trying to get the rust off,”

Taylor said. “You can shoot in the
gym by yourself, but there is nothing
like being out there in game action.”
Taylor tore an ACL for the third
time last season, which cost her
playing time and caused her to drop
in June’ Game Time draft. She also
u n d e r went a s c ope pr oc edur e
recently to remove scar tissue from
her leg.
“I had a cyst removed about eight
weeks ago,” Taylor said. “My minutes in the league have been so-so
because of it, but now the minutes
are starting to pick up.”
Johnson has been bitten by the
injury bug throughout her Hawkeye
tenure as well. She has been battling patellar tendinitis in both
knees recently, which has taken
valuable minutes from her not only

on the court but in the weight room
as well.
“It’s been hard limiting your minutes and trying to understand when
you can and cannot push yourself,”
Johnson said. “I’m allowed to play in
three minute segments — three
times each half.”
Tendinitis is different from most
injuries in that it can linger for a
long period of time and put off a full
recovery. Johnson said the Iowa athletics trainers have been working
hard with her to make sure no lasting effects are still present by the
time the regular season opens.
“We’ve been trying pretty hard to
get it down to a minimal so when
the season comes around, I can be at

Sam Logic makes her living on
the court passing the ball, but she
switched to scoring on Wednesday
night with her team struggling.
Vi n t o n / M c C u r r y ’s p r e v a i l e d
over Pelling/Culver’s, 76-61. The
game, however, wasn’t pretty.
“We all just played really hard,”
Logic said. “We didn’t play too
well on offense or defense. We
just ground it out.”
The game started off slowly,
and both teams struggled during
t h e f i r s t h a l f. C o a ch B r e n d a n
Unkrich’s Vinton team, however,
was able to get a lead just before
half, 33-28.
And then the squad was able to
capitalize after the break.
“We kept the lead because we
played good defense,” Northern
Iowa incoming freshman Erin
Dohnalek said.
Unkrich’s team was able to stifle its opponent with a stingy
defense, even though the team’s
offense wasn’t up to its potential.
Vinton had trouble moving the
ball and became stagnant; plays
weren’t constantly being created,
which is why Unkrich team finished with only 7 assists.
“We were taking quick shots,”
Dohnalek said. “If we passed the
ball a couple more times, we probably would’ve gotten better
shots.”
Unkrich’s team didn’t move the
ball well, but the players were
still able to score — and that’s

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SEE LOGIC, 5A

HAWKEYES IN ACTION
Hawkeye Harazin
wins in doubles
Iowa women’s tennis sophomore Christina Harazin paired
with Indiana’s Katie Klyzcek to
compete in the Purdue
Intercollegiate
Tennis
Association Summer Circuit
last weekend. The two recorded a 5-0 record, including an
8-6 victory in the championship match.
Harazin has played at the
No. 3-6 singles positions on

the Iowa roster as well as the
No. 2 and 3 doubles spots. She
has seen action in 42 of the
last 45 Hawkeye matches.
Harazin also competed in
the singles tournament but
didn’t advance to the championship match. The Hawkeye
won a 6-3, 6-3 match in the
opening
round
against
Jathmie
Jayawickrema.
Harazin lost to Nell Boyd (6-4,
7-5) in the second round of the
tournament.
— by Molly Irene Olmstead

Energy the key in V-ball camp
The Little
Spikers volleyball
camp staff puts
all its energy
into creating
energy to help
the young
campers learn.
By TAYLOR AXELSON
taylor-axelson@uiowa.edu

Golfer English to
head to Women’s
Amateur
Iowa women’s golf sophomore Lauren English finished
with a 1-over 73 at the
Blackberry Oaks Country Club
on Monday to qualify for the
2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur.
English tied for fourth in the
qualifier.
Brenda Pictor won the
qualifier with a 71.
English will play in the U.S.
Women’s Amateur on Aug. 612 at the Country Club in
Cleveland.

English returned to her
home state to compete in the
qualifier in Bristol, Ill. English
was ranked the No. 1 golfer in
the state for her high-school
class of 2011. The Hawkeye
also landed in the top 50
recruits nationally.
The sophomore-to-be competed in 11 tournaments during her freshman year at
Iowa, swinging for a 78.44
stroke
average.
The
Hawkeye’s highest finish on
the season was a tie for 12th
at the Wyoming Cowgirl
Classic.
— by Molly Irene Olmstead

“The more energy you
have, the harder you
work.”
Iowa assistant volleyball coach Ben Boldt
brings that philosophy
into the Little Spikers volleyball camp, a three-session day camp that held
its last two-hour session
on Wednesday.
A volleyball gym is usually a loud place, but when
the Carver-Hawkeye practice facility was filled with
girls ages 7 to 11 who are
continually encouraged to
be vocal, it’s even louder.
The bang of bouncing volleyballs was overcome by
the voices of the 35 young

Hawkeye volleyball player Kari Mueller coaches Abbi Purcha (left) and Marleigh Flanagan as they respond
to Taylore Kuenster’s incoming ball during the Little Spikers volleyball camp held in Caver-Hawkeye Arena
on Wednesday. (The Daily Iowan/Juan Carlos Herrera)
athletes as they’re encouraged to be as loud as they
can.
“What we really enforce
is energy, especially when
[the campers] aren’t learning the skills very well,”
Iowa volleyball player
Kari Mueller said. “Some
of them are just so young
that the skills won’t stick

all the way in their head,
so we stress the aspect of
talking to each other and
having fun.”
The Iowa volleyball
team involved in the camp
is taught to keep the energy in the gym as high as
possible because it creates
a better learning environment for the kids.

“These kids kind of get
bored quickly, and their
attention spans are so
short that we try to have
as much energy as we
can,” sophomore Alli
O’Deen said. “We make it
fun and have the best time
with these kids to make
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THURSDAY TO SUNDAY PM
THURSDAY 7/12/12

THE NET OF
LITERATURE
Iowa City keeps ties with Chinese
culture through literature.
By LU SHEN
lu-shen@uiowa.edu

A group of young writers
traveled to China recently
to discuss literature with
their international counterparts.
“Our goal really is to
help Americans know more
about international literature and help international
writers know more about
America,” said Nate
Brown, the publicity coordinator at International
Writing Program. “It’s really as simple as that.”
Brown led four young
American writers to Beijing and Shanghai to meet
with four young Chinese
writers from June 27
through July 7 to talk
about literature from different perspectives.
Life of Discovery is the
name of the exchange program, which the IWP
hosts, that aims to bring
together writers and from
the United States and from
China, allowing them to
talk about literature face
to face.
This fall, the same four
Chinese writers will come
to the States to continue
discussing literature.

‘We are more similar
than different’
Brown told The Daily
Iowan person-to-person
dialogue and person-toperson exchange is much
more intimate, and there
therefore usually more productive or engaging than
other ways of engaging
with writers.
“We don’t know what
will come out of this
exchange,” said Brown, a
writer himself. “But we do
know that it’s inherent and
important that we put
artists in United States in
touch with the artists in
China.”
Brown said he feels it is
important is because both
countries are incredibly
large, and they play major
roles on the global stage,
while it sometime is easy
to forget that at the most
personal level, people are
similar no matter where
they come from.
“That’s really easy to
lose sight of when you’re
over here, China is news of
trade agreements or of
sending people to space.
Those are the big national
stories,” he said. “But the
smaller and more intimate
things might get lost. The
fact that people in China
struggle with exactly the
same artistic challenges
that we face, which is how
do you tell the story of contemporary China, how do
you write a compelling or
interesting story about a

family living in Shanghai?”
He said American writers can have similar difficulties.
“Dan O’Brien faces the
exact same challenges
when he’s trying to write
about a family living in Los
Angles,” Brown said. “And
it’s really interesting that
despite the difference in
culture, the difference in
languages, the difference
in our countries’ histories,
that the individual challenges faced by the writers
when they are sitting down
to write on the page are
exactly the same.”
Dora Malech, Iowa City
poet, artist, and teacher,
said she feels the same
way.
“So much of the media’s
coverage of relations
between the US and China
focuses on sweeping political and economic issues,”
she wrote in an email. “So
taking the conversation
between our countries to a
more intimate, personal,
specific level felt really
refreshing.”
Brown said the discussion held between American writers and Chinese
writers draws them closer
together.
“We are more similar
than different,” he said.
“That sounds like a cliché.
But actually being there,
realizing it, was hugely
important for me. And it
makes the world feel at
once smaller, and more
intimate, and more deeply
complicated than we previously assumed.”

‘Iowa City has been long
tied with Chinese
literature’
Hualing Nieh Engle,
who wrote I’m a tree, with
roots in China, the trunk in
Taiwan, and the leaves in
Iowa in her memoir and
cofounded the IWP with
her late husband Paul
Engel, came to the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop in 1964.
She has spent almost half
a century living, writing,
and working with the IWP.
Nieh told the DI the idea
of IWP was brought up on
a boat in 1966.
“One day when we were
on a boat,” she said, translated from Chinese. “I told
Paul that the Writers’
Workshop was such a success, and we foreign writers had learned so much
there. But writers from different countries have different literary pursuits.
Why don’t you start a program for foreign writers?”
After Engle asked if she
was crazy, she simply said,
“Sometimes.”

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It was this “crazy” idea that
set the tone for IWP. Once the
program was founded, the two
began raising grants for inviting
foreign writers over. They could
only afford 12 writers the first
year.
There were writers coming
from Taiwan and Hong Kong,
but no one was from mainland
China — until 1979. After America and China resumed diplomatic relations, the IWP invited
Xiao Qian, the first writer from
mainland China, to Iowa City.
“It was also the first time
writers from mainland China,
Taiwan, and Hong Kong could
get together,” Nieh said.
Iowa City has been long tied
with Chinese literature, Nieh
said.
“Yu Kuang-chung was the
first Chinese writer to attend
the Writers’ Workshop,” she
said. “We didn’t know about the
Writers’ Workshop until he
came back to Taiwan after getting his M.F.A. here. The IWP
had not been founded then. The
major Taiwanese writers have
been studying at the Writers’
Workshop in the ’60s, like Pai
Hsien-yung and Wang Wenhsing.”
Nieh, who has written more

than 20 books, said her main
focus while serving as codirector
at IWP was selecting talented
and established Chinese writers
from the Chinese-speaking
world and raising money for
their visits.
Approximately 100 writers
from the Chinese-speaking
world have attended the program as fall residents over the
last 45 years, most of whom are
major figures in modern and
contemporary Chinese Literature.
“I’ve been reading new books
published in the Chinese-speaking world and have been paying
close attention to Chinese writers,” Nieh said. “So I know for
sure who is qualified to come
here.”
After retiring in 1988, Nieh
has stayed connected to the program by serving as a member of
the IWP Advisory Board.
“She is very much aware of
Life of Discovery,” Brown said.
“She’s someone who we constantly look to for advice and for
suggestions.”
“Life of Discovery is a great
exchange program,” Nieh said.
“Through the 10-day trip, the
American writers might be have
to have a glimpse of what China
is like. ”

Nieh was recently told by UI
Foundation that an anonymous
person donated $500,000 to
establish Hualing Engle Endowment for any program or programs as she decides.
“Of course, I’ll spend the
money on IWP,” she said. “I’m
planning to invite a Chinese
writer over every year with the
annual interest. Starting next
year, we could have the best Chinese writers over without raising funds.”
Literature is a study of
human life, Nieh said.
“IWP brings a diversity of cultures from every corner of the
world to Iowa City,” she said.
“Moreover, people from all over
get chances to meet and communicate one another. Because I
write fiction, I’m always interested in people. ”
Nieh said writers must have
something in common, so that
they could be able to communicate no matter how huge the
language barrier is.
“So IWP is a net that connecting people and cultures,” she
said. “It’s not linear.”
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Gilbert & Sullivan sail
onto Coralville stage

Ralph Rickstraw (Scott Myers) sings while his shipmates look on during a rehearsal of HMS Pinafore at
the Coralville Performing Arts Center on Tuesday. The opera opens Friday night and runs through Sunday.
(The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin)

The UI Summer
Opera will show
off some
Victorian-era
opera in
Coralville with
H.M.S. Pinafore.
BY EMMA MCCLATCHEY
emma-mcclatchey@uiowa.edu

Classic opera isn’t just
for 19th-century aristocrats
— as the University of Iowa
Summer Opera program
can demonstrate.
On Friday, the program
will open its production of
H.M.S. Pinafore, a comic
opera by the famous Victorian-era partnership of
William Gilbert and Sir
Arthur Sullivan. The show
will take place at the
Coralville Center for the
Performing Arts, 1301 Fifth
St., at 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. July
15.
With a light comic opera
featuring tongue-in-cheek
satire,
star-crossed
romance, and an ending
with a twist, director John
Cameron said H.M.S.
Pinafore is a lively show
that has endured.
“It’s a comic opera about
mistaken identity, and it
has since become part of
the operatic heyday,” he
said. “Over the years, the
music is so beautifully written that it has attracted
musicians and singers.
There have been whole
companies dedicated to just
performing the music.”
Unlike plays, Cameron
said, staging an opera, during which the actors are
continually singing, presents challenges.
“A person who directs an
opera has to know the
needs of the singer,” he
said. “If you have a legitimately trained voice, you
need certain considerations. There are certain
songs in which I don’t want
the singers running around
the stage because they
need to maintain their
breath for the more challenging portions of the
music.”

Unlike contemporary
musicals, he said, classic
operas such as H.M.S.
Pinafore require some
reflection when bringing
the show into the 21st century.
“This show was written
for another time period,
and so the challenge is
always to make it acceptable to a modern-day audience,” he said.
H.M.S.
Although
Pinafore was crafted to
humor audiences of around
124 years ago, show conductor William LaRue
Jones said many of the
themes will resonate with
fans of contemporary
romantic comedy.
“H.M.S. Pinafore is just a
very happy, carefree kind of
opera,” he said. “Gilbert
and Sullivan were sort of
the forerunners for light
comic opera, [and their
works are] performed much
more often than Broadway
musicals and consistently
throughout the world.
Sometimes, they can have
some sad or poignant
moments, but most of the
time, they’re just very
happy and upbeat.”
Set designer Margaret
Wenk said she was sure to
capture this carefree, historical tone in her stage
and costume design.
“John wanted to make
sure that it was playful,
fun, and true to the topsyturvy world of Gilbert and
Sullivan,” she said. “So I
designed a set that was a
skewed boat that had practical working parts, doors
and ladder shrouds, so that
he would be able to build
wonderful
movement
action, pictures and keep

H.M.S. Pinafore
When: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday;
2 p.m. July 15
Where: Coralville Center for
the Performing Arts, 1301
Fifth St.
Admission: Tickets vary
up the romance. The whole
idea was like a pop-up Victorian Valentine.”
Jones said these beautiful features, combined with
other theatrical elements,
are what make operas such
as H.M.S. Pinafore so
attractive to audiences and
musicians.
“I love opera music,
because I think it’s probably the most complete art
form that we have,” he said.
“When you put opera
together, then you have not
only instrumentals, you
have the vocalists. On top
of that, it brings in visual
artists who create and
design sets for the action
that’s on stage. Then you
add in costumes that represent certain societies or cultures in the period when
the opera was written.
Opera usually also contains
dance. It’s really something
that includes everything
that we have in the arts.”
Cameron said he agreed,
and he was excited to be a
take part in presenting one
of Gilbert and Sullivan’s
most beloved operas.
“The music is beautiful
and fun. When you’ve done
a few hundred shows, it’s
the simple pleasure of
doing,” he said. “It is just
very enjoyable, and I hope
[audiences] have a good
time.”

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Book Festival
returns

Free Movie Series
to show Hugo

The fourth-annual Iowa City
Book Festival, presented by
the University of Iowa
Libraries, will kick off Friday
with the Literary Carnival at 7
p.m.
More than 80 events will
take place over the weekend
ranging from readings to a
Hunger Games event on the
Pentacrest lawn on Sunday at 1
p.m. More than 50 authors are
expected to host events at the
festival as well.
Kristi Bontrager, the director of the Book Festival, said
she is excited about the
growth of the book festival.
“We continue to grow in our
number of attendance, and last
year, we saw a nice increase,”
she said. “I really think that as
this festival continues to grow,
it’s going to become more and
more of a regional event.”
Bontrager said there is
something for everyone at the
festival.
“The main thing is just that
we’ve got tons of great programming that is free,” she
said. “I really think there’s
something for everyone.”
Most events for the book
festival will take place on the
Pentacrest. More information
on events and locations is
available at iowacitybookfestival.org.
— by Anna Theodosis

The Summer of the Arts’ Free
Movie Series will show the film
Hugo on Saturday on the
Macbride lawn. Pre-film activities
will be in conjunction with the
Iowa Book Festival.
The 2011 family film Hugo was
based on a popular children’s
book The Invention of Hugo
Cabret. Because of its literary
origins, Summer of the Arts
Director Lisa Barnes said it was
an ideal pick for the week of the
Book Festival.
“We’re always excited to collaborate with other groups, and
because of the fact that the Iowa
Book Festival is this weekend, it
just seemed to make sense to
have a movie that’s based on a
book,” Barnes said. “It’s always
fun to support other events that
are going on in the area.”
The Free Movie Series is, as
advertised, free of charge and
open to the public. The showing

of Hugo will begin between 8:20
p.m. and 9 p.m., following the
Book Festival activities.
— by Emma McClatchey

Cohn to play the
Englert
Grammy award winning
singer/songwriter Marc Cohn will
perform at the Englert Theater,
221 E. Washington St., at 8 p.m.
today.
Iowa City will be the second
stop on the performer’s nationwide tour ending in Woodstock,
N.Y. In June, he toured with Stevie
Nicks and before that, with
Bonnie Raitt.
Cohn’s latest album, Listening
Booth: 1970, released in 2010, is
his eighth studio album.
According to the singer’s offcial
website, Cohn has “been hooked
on music from Day One.”
Tickets for the show are $30 in
advance, $32 the day of the show.
— by Anna Theodosis

MISCELLANEOUS
• East Side Farmers’ Market, 10
a .m.-2 p.m., Olde Towne Village,
610 Eastbury
• A Day in the City of
Literature, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.,
Iowa City Public Library
• The Hunger Games
Tournament, 1 p.m., Pentacrest
• Walden Place Summertime
Activities, 3 p.m., Walden Place
Retirement Residence

AT THE BIJOU:

We Have a Pope
Directed by Nanni Moretti, We Have a Pope tells the story of Melville, a
cardinal who finds himself elected as the next pope. Completely caught off
guard by the news, he panics and is presented to the faithful in St. Peter’s
Square. In order to prevent a crisis, the Vatican’s spokesman call in a
psychiatrist to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. The story takes a
look at the idea of who the person is behind the title of Pope.

4B - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Thursday, July 12, 2012

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More than elementary, Holmes Getting fired, turning the page
By EMMA MCCLATCHEY
emma-mcclatchey@uiowa.edu

Perhaps the most famous
fictional detective, Sherlock
Holmes has been portrayed in
dozens of books, TV shows,
and movies — and now, on a
University of Iowa stage.
Members of the Iowa Summer Rep said the next play in
the “Chills and Thrills” series,
Sherlock’s Last Case, by
Charles Marowitz, depicts the
famed crime-solver and his
assistant Dr. Watson in a new
light. The play will open at 8
p.m. today in the Theater
Building’s Mabie Theater.
UI Performing Arts Division marketing manager JD
Mendenhall said the play
presents audiences with a
more comedic personification
of the iconic Holmes.
“A lot of things that we
know and love about Sherlock
Holmes are just exaggerated
to the point where it is very
ridiculous,” he said. “It’s like
Sherlock Holmes on steroids.”
David Combs, the actor
playing Holmes, said such
overstated characteristics
include Holmes’ eccentricity,
reputation with the ladies,
and vigor for solving mysteries at the expense of personal
relationships.

“It’s set a little bit later on
in Sherlock’s career, when he’s
not quite so sharp as he used
to be,” he said. “What was a
rather brusque personality
has turned into grating personality, and as a result the
people around him are affected a little more.”
Although playing such an
eccentric and iconic character
was a daunting task, he said,
he was thrilled to take on the
role.
“Along with the challenge,
it’s one of those things every
actor hopes to do, to play
Sherlock Holmes or one of the
great characters,” he said. “It’s
so exciting to be a part of the
whole mystique: wearing the
Inverness coat and deerstalker hat and the pipe, with a big
magnifying glass and saying,
‘Elementary, my dear Watson.’ All those fun things.”
Actor Kendall Lloyd, who
plays Dr. John Watson, said
he, too, was a bit intimidated,
yet excited, to partake in a
continuation of the Sherlock
Holmes legend.
“It’s one of those classic
pairs that we’ve seen through
numerous TV shows and
movies, and also the books,”
he said. “One of the tricky
things about playing Watson

is getting over the dozens of
ways he’s been played by
numerous actors, finding my
own take on it, and being able
to be creative in this brandnew take on Watson.”
Lloyd said Marowitz’s “new
take” included a more tired
Watson, working to keep up
with the ever-crazy Holmes.
“Watson is becoming a little
more frustrated with Sherlock’s antics, and Sherlock
isn’t the most thoughtful guy
to hang out with all the time,”
he said. “I think you’ll see
some new developments in
their relationship. Oftentimes, Watson serves as the
sounding board for Holmes’s
ideas, rather than somebody
who is always contributing to
the cases.”
With new interpretations
of classic characters and an
interesting blend of genres,
Combs said, he believes new
and old fans of the Holmes
story will enjoy the play.
“Sherlock’s Last Case is definitely a comedy-mystery, but
it also has some darker
moments in it,” he said.
“Because it has all the combination of a mystery plus comedy, I think it’s going to be one
of those things audiences
really enjoy.”

By ELLE WIGNALL
elle-wignall@uiowa.edu

“I want people to feel
like they’re sitting down
with the person telling a
story,” New York Times
bestseller author Robert
Goolrick said. “I love a
novel that sounds like
you’re being told a story
as opposed to reading a
story, so I work very hard
to try to make the novels
as hearable as possible.”
At noon Saturday in the
Seamans Center lobby,
fans of Goolrick’s best-selling novel The Reliable
Wife and his new novel
Heading Out to Wonderful
will have the opportunity
to listen to his storytelling
firsthand in the fourthannual Iowa City Book
Festival.
After being fired from
his job in advertising, he
said, he needed to find
something to do with the
rest of his life.
He had written novels
in his 20s and 30s but didn’t make a career out of it.
Goolrick published a
memoir called The End of
the World As We Know It
as well as his first novel, A
Reliable Wife.

“I think that it’s important to find the voice that
suits the story,” he said.
“In advertising, you get to
be a very chameleon-like
writer. I think that helped
me a lot.”
Goolrick, who grew up
in a small Virginia town,
said he moved back to be
around the people he was
writing about.
“Brownsburg is a real
town, but highly fictionalized, but I hope holds true
to the way the people are,”
he said. “It also is a portrait of Virginia the way it
was when I was child. It
has a lot to do with the
nostalgia from my childhood.”
Brownsburg and the
people in it serve as inspiration for his works, he
said.
Goolrick’s latest novel,
Heading Out to Wonderful,
is about a man named
Charlie Beale who shows
up in a small Virginia
town in 1948 with only
two suitcases. One suitcase holds his worldly possessions and butcher
knife set, and the other is
full of cash.
“Heading Out to Won-

derful is based on a true
story. Twenty-five years
ago, a friend of mine in
another country told me
the story of something
that happened to him as a
child,” Goolrick said.
“When he was done, I
thought, ‘This is the best
story I’ve ever heard.’ I
really, really wanted to get
this story out and tell it.”
Heading Out to Wonderful works with themes of
place and passion, the loss
of innocence, and tragedy.
“It’s a gorgeously written book,” said Paul
Ingram, the Prairie
Lights book buyer. “It’s
kind of a complicated love
story.”
While Goolrick has
never been to Iowa City,
he said he is excited about
meeting readers and
other writers on the trip.
The Iowa City Book
Festival is an excellent
place to do that networking, said Festival Director
Festival Director Kristi
Bontrager.
“Authors love to come to
Iowa City,” she said. “This
is a great place to talk
about books and reading
and writing.”

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What I
Found in the
Couch:
• An abandoned Walkman
with an audiobook cassette
(Couch Spelunking for
Beginners).
• The user’s manual to the
couch, which was actually
more interesting than you’d
think.
• A very authentic-looking
treasure map that only led to
the pirate-themed furniture
store (Aaarrrrmoires, Etc.)
where the couch was purchased.
• A passageway to Charlie
Kaufman’s mind, allowing
unfettered access to his best,
most original ideas.
• Schmutz, mostly.
• A miniature replica of
the couch itself, puzzlingly.
• The best sushi place you
have ever been to. I swear.
• A dust-bunny, a grimekangaroo, and a lint-man.
• Loose change, but only
Canadian pennies and
dimes.
• All of a sudden, an oversized boxing glove on a
spring.
• My hide-and-seek opponent, who then finked out of
being “it” by claiming he had
jury duty.
• A colony of tiny people
who drugged me with needle
arrows dipped in a powerful
sedative, tied me up with
dental floss, and made off
with my car keys. They joy
rode for hours, by means of
an elaborate system of pulleys, and a teensy captain
who coordinated their
efforts.
• My car keys. But that
was much, much later.
• A copy of my résumé, to
which I immediately added
“Couch Spelunker.”
• My calling.
— Will Hartman will just be over here
napping, if you need him.

ARIES March 21-April 19 Move money around to cover your costs. A deal being offered is too good
to refuse. A partnership will be a stabilizing factor in your life. New surroundings will give you a
creative injection that improves your skills and productivity.
TAURUS April 20-May 20 Listen to your heart, and don’t be influenced by someone trying to manipulate your decision. Concentrate on creating your own scenario and deciding what works for
you. You will learn a lot if you follow your own path.
GEMINI May 21-June 20 Don’t let the actions of others cause doubt. There is plenty you can do to
improve your life if you sign up for events, activities, and lessons that will benefit you. Don’t be
a follower when you are a leader at heart.
CANCER June 21-July 22 Keep up with the trends and the times. Updates must be made, both personally and professionally. What you learn now will help you in the future. Don’t pass up an
opportunity to acquire skills or to get involved in a serviceable venture.
LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Rely on what you know, not how you feel about what’s going on around you. A
costly mistake will occur if you listen to someone you love instead of relying on facts and figures to lead you in the right direction.
VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Someone’s action is likely to disturb you. Take steps to secure your position and protect your assets and reputation. Travel to discuss what you want to see happen faceto-face with someone important.
LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 You need a change of pace and surroundings. Don’t be fooled into taking an
expensive trip. You’ll get just as much out of a more budget-friendly destination that lets you
enjoy people, places, or things you don’t see that often.
SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Don’t get wrapped up in someone else’s melodrama. Back away from anyone trying to dump guilt or responsibilities in your lap. Do something that allows you to be creative and productive. Travel for business connections or knowledge.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Excess and opportunity will go hand in hand. Showing off a little will
impress the right people. Your drive, attitude, and ability to take action will lead to a proposal
that will be too hard to turn down. Love is highlighted.
CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Listen carefully. You don’t want to miss important information that will
influence the choice you make. Not everyone will be on your team, so be careful not to fall for
a biased point of view. Rely on what you know.
AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Make a point of spending time with positive people who have similar
interests. An opportunity to make a move geographically or to try out a different way of life is
apparent. Educational pursuits will give you greater skills and confidence.
PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Don’t take unnecessary risks. You must stick to what you know and do
best to avoid suffering a loss. Too much of anything will not bring you the success you hope to
achieve. Moderation and common sense will be required.

FLIGHT TALK

UIHC AirCare flight nurse Rick Ogren talks to a group of preschoolers from Regina at
the Iowa City Municipal Airport on Wednesday. Operating from the ninth floor of the
UIHC, directly above the emergency room, AirCare provides helicopter ambulance
service to the local area and flies an average of two flights a day. (The Daily
Iowan/Ian Servin)